medical Terminology

The suffix -(o)tomy means:

• cutting into; incision

• process of visual examination

• to view

• cutting out; removal; excision

Which suffix would be added to the end of the medical term to complete the sentence below?

Visual examination of the abdomen is laparo_______.

• -ctomy

• -scopy

• -logy

• -gram

Means - surgical puncture to remove fluid

• -centesis
• -clasia
• -clysis
• -capnia

Means - surgical removal

• -cyte
• -desis
• -dynia
• -ectomy

Means - surgical repair

• -opsy
• -paresis
• -plasty
• -plegia

-rrhaphy

• rupture

• suturing in place

• little

• cell

-stomy

• hardening

• suturing in place

• surgical opening

• nourishment, development

Pexy

• Fixation

• gram

• pathy

• scope

suffix -tripsy

• crushing or destroying

• picture or record

instrument used to measure

• -logy
• -meter
• -opsy
• -ologist